Title :
Passively mode locked femtosecond Yb:YAG lasers
Author :
Honninger, Clemens ; Zhang, Ge ; Keller, Ulrich ; Giesen, Adolf
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We have for the first time, we believe, demonstrated femtosecond pulse generation of a Yb:YAG laser using high-finesse and low-finesse antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorbers. We achieved pulses as short as 563 fs with typical average output powers of 150 mW.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; ytterbium; 150 mW; 563 fs; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; Yb:YAG laser; antiresonant Fabry-Perot saturable absorbers; femtosecond pulse generation; high-finesse; low-finesse; passively mode locked femtosecond Yb:YAG lasers; typical average output powers; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast electronics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
